Icloud is up overall mac?

Hi all

I'm really new in this icloud and have used an external hard drive to back up my mac. When I click the icon 'Time Machine', I don't see icloud option; I see that my external hard drive and set up another 'airport Time Capsule"than the other options. How can I save using icloud and save all that the fact that the way in which it would be with an external hard drive?

Thank you very much!

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You cannot use iCloud for back up your Mac. A full backup of your Mac takes a huge amount of storage and it could be also very slow to download everything to iCloud, so Apple does not support this option again.

Instead, Time Machine gives you only the ability to perform backups on an external disk or an airport Time Capsule.

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